Russian Space Research Institute

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Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN)

Formation	May 15, 1965; 58 years ago (1965-05-15)
Location	Moscow, Russia
Coordinates	55°39′20″N 37°31′58″E
Official language	Russian English
Parent organization	Russian Academy of Sciences
Staff	289
Website	iki.cosmos.ru www.iki.rssi.ru/eng/index.htm
Formerly called	Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ИКИ АН СССР, IKI AN SSSR)

The Russian Space Research Institute (

1. Georgy Petrov (1965–1973)
2. Roald Z. Sagdeev
   (1973–1988)
3. Albert Galeev (1988–2002)
4. Lev Zeleny
   (2002–2018)
5. Anatoly Petrukovich (2018–present)

Research

The institute engages in research in the following areas:

• High-energy astrophysics
• Planetary science
• Space plasma physics
• Interplanetary medium and solar wind
• Earth science
• Optical physics
  research
• Satellite Situation Center
• Russian Space Science Internet
• Data Archive

Current missions and experiments

• Plasma-F (in Russian) suit (three scientific instruments and data processing unit) onboard Spektr-R spacecraft (end of mission 2019),
• HEND (short for High Energy Neutron Detector) instrument onboard Mars Odyssey mission (NASA),
• ESA) mission for Mars remote sensing
  . IKI contributed to three instruments on board the mission: OMEGA mapping spectrometer, PFS (Planetary Fourier Spectrometer), and SPICAM infrared and UV spectrometer. Russian scientists are also co-investigators in most scientific groups of the project. Launched in 2003.
• ESA
  ) mission for Venus remote sensing. IKI contributed to two instruments on board the spacecraft: SPICAV/SOIR infrared and UV-spectrometer and PFS (Planetary Fourier Spectrometer). Russian scientists are also co-investigators in three other experiments VIRTIS, VMS, and ASPERA. Launched in 2005.
• LEND (short for Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector) instrument onboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA),
• DAN (short for Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons) instrument onboard Curiosity rover (Mars Science Laboratory project, NASA),
• Chibis-M microsatellite (end of mission October 15, 2014),
• ESA
  ) X-ray and gamma-ray orbital observatory. It was delivered to space by Proton launcher from Baikonur cosmodrome, under condition that Russian scientists get 25% of the observational time. IKI hosts INTEGRAK Russian Scientific Data Center,
• RTT150 Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope. International observatory in Turkey (previously called AZT-22), mountain Bakyrlytepe is an international project carried out under supervision of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). From the Russian side the main executing participants are Kazan State University (KGU) and IKI, from the Turkish side it is managed by TUBITAK National Observatory (TUG). In accordance to the agreement between the participants of the project, the telescope observing time is shared as follows: 45% – KGU, 15% – IKI, and 40% – are shared between Turkish universities through TUG,
• MKS-Obstanovka (ISS-Environment) experiment onboard International Space Station (Russian segment),
• RELEC (microsatellite experiment to study energetic particles in the near-Earth space, principal organisation — Skobeltsyn Institute for Nuclear Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University).